Without good staffing ratios, says the Ontario Nurses’ Association, Canada’s largest nurse union, there will be even longer wait times, possibly life-threatening delays and unreasonable workloads. While staffing ratios vary and are often not achieved in practice, the 2024 Patient‑to‑Nurse Ratios for Hospitals Act says a 1-to-1 staff-to-patient ratio is ideal within critical care, for example.
‘We’ve never seen a situation like this before’: Ontario health-care system at breaking point, nurses say
